Earling, Debra Magpie: - Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and Lost Journals of Sacajewea .
She is Bitterroot Salish..
She is retired from the University of Montana, where she was named professor emeritus in 2021.
She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Earling, Debra Magpie: - Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and Lost Journals of Sacajewea